Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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democratic
theres a word
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Now that`s the way to do it............
High Court rules that billionaire fraudster should lose three luxury properties
It is alleged that Kazakh businessman, Mukhtar Ablyazov, embezzled more than $6bn during his time
as chairman of BTA Bank
A billionaire fraudster is set to lose three of his luxury properties in Britain's most exclusive postcodes
after a High Court ruling.
Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov fled the UK on a Europe-bound coach last year after he was
sentenced to 22 months imprisonment for contempt over failing to declare the full extent of his wealth.
It is alleged that he embezzled more than $6bn during his time as chairman of BTA Bank between
2005 and 2009, which he denies. The bank is now pursuing Mr Ablyazov in the High Court over 11
separate claims in a bid to recover its funds.
His whereabouts are currently unknown, but should Mr Ablyazov return to the UK he might find himself
in far less comfortable surroundings than he's accustomed to.
Receivers KPMG have been given the go ahead to put properties worth a combined £41m up for sale.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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good decision
the guy should be brought back for even more justice
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cartel prices we do not need.......Scaremongering we need even less.............
Energy suppliers held back gas during UK shortage
Terminals near London and in Wales were 40% and 52% full on the day it was claimed the UK had
six hours' worth of gas left
The Liquefied Natural Gas terminal on the Isle of Grain near London.
Some of Britain's biggest energy suppliers were holding back gas in storage tanks at a time when the
market ran into an acute shortage two months ago, triggering a doubling of wholesale prices.
The revelations came after claims the UK was within six hours of running out of gas completely on 22 March
and will feed rising public and political anger over soaring power bills and previous allegations of
market manipulation.
The National Grid, which keeps data on the gas industry, revealed that the Liquefied Natural Gas terminal
at the Isle of Grain near London, used by BP, Centrica and other big suppliers, was 40% full on 22 March.
The South Hook LNG plant in south Wales, owned by ExxonMobil and Total, was 52% full on the same day
, at a time when various pipeline and other supply problems caused gas prices to hit 150 pence a therm.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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HSBC under fire from all sides at AGM
Bank sees 11% of investors vote down the pay report as it is attacked by environmental campaigners,
former staff - and Bill Oddie
World Development Movement campaigners set up a Carbon Bubbles champagne bar serving oil from
champagne bottles outside HSBC's AGM.
Angry shareholders of HSBC on Friday bombarded the group's board with barrage of accusations ranging
from financing Mexican drug cartels to supporting tax havens, slashing jobs and mis-selling products.
At the banking firm's first annual general meeting since paying a record $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in penalties to
settle US money laundering claims, they also rounded on the directors with charges of hunting down
whistleblowers and grabbing bloated bonuses.
Environmentalist and broadcaster Bill Oddie joined the tirade of attacks in London's Barbican Centre,
accusing the bank of financing the desecration of forests in Sarawak and Borneo. Outside the AGM,
campaigners from World Development Network confronted bankers with champagne flutes filled with
'carbon bubbles' to protest against the bankrolling of climate change, while street theatre performers
heckled arriving executives.
Brian Dixon
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all bunkum reg all bunkum.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Google tax policy is 'just capitalism'
Britain should stop complaining and change its tax laws, search-engine chief Eric Schmidt
tells Hay festival audience
Eric Schmidt, the head of Google, has shrugged off criticism that his company pays only a fraction of
its tax bill, saying it's "just capitalism". He also challenged the British Government to change the tax laws
or stop complaining.
** It would appear many elite greedy pigs and a few not in this group think that human sympathy perpetrates
the mediocre only and rise above ordinary morality and feel superior...................
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy I ndependent................
Margaret Hodge: 'Companies have to pay their share. Tax is a moral issue'
As the tax affairs of Google and Amazon have risen up the agenda, one MP has led the charge. So
, James Moore asks her, what's she planning next?
Margaret Hodge calls for company tax secrets to be exposed
She has chucked bricks at executives from Google, Amazon, Starbucks. She has eviscerated the top
civil servants from HM Revenue & Customs. And she strikes fear into the hearts of the "leaders" of other
dysfunctional public bodies.
So they'll be mightily relieved that Margaret Hodge, the chairman of the House of Commons Public
Accounts Committee, is planning a brief cease-fire to weigh up her next move.
What they won't like is her pledge that she is by no means done. "We're going to pause for breath
for a moment. We want to stop and think where we go from here strategically," says Hodge of her
crusade to name and shame those involved in global tax avoidance.
But corporate Britain be warned. "They hide behind this taxpayer confidentiality," she says. "For ordinary
people, keeping your affairs confidential - that's only right. But these are very big organisations,
public companies. That makes them different."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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shes a fighter
and she has them on the run
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Businesses `ill prepared for tough times.
The true cost of the government`s swingeing austerity measures on Briton`s businesses has been
laid bare following the revelation that about one third of companies expect public sector cuts to hamper their
turnover in the next two years.
Financial complaints mount as even high earners feel the pinch.
A record number of doctors,lawyers,businessmen and even financial johnnies are sounding the alarm about the
state of their finances
The number of high earners who asked the finance ombudsman for help with money problems doubled last year......
Like it or not,tax reform is coming............
If you want us to pay more tax...yes please....in Britain don`t lay the guilt trip on us change the rules.
That was the message from Eric Schmidt Google`s boss to politicians.......what a good idea.......
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Independent............rvhised....
Error of judgement.....................
'Sweetheart deal' taxman, Dave Hartnett, joins Deloitte
The former tax executive criticised for making "sweetheart deals" with multinational companies
has been appointed as a specialist adviser for a leading accountancy firm.
Dave Hartnett, who resigned as Permanent Secretary for Tax at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs,
will work one day a week for Deloitte, the auditor of Vodafone and Starbucks.
The 62-year-old will advise overseas governments on how to implement "effective tax regimes"
, according to details of the appointment published on the Advisory Committee on Business
Appointments website.
David Cameron approved the appointment on the condition that Mr Hartnett was "not involved in
any work considering how UK taxation can be mitigated or avoided".
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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will he heck as like
whos the mouse think hes kidding
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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these finance johnnies will be too worldly wise for dave and george who have no previous experience in such matters.
chas would be better qualified to make progress, after all that was his real job.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well they ought to be pay or be made to
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I thought there was a compulsory two year period of unpaid gardening leave before mandarins could take a senior job outside Whitehall.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Doesn't appear so peter
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy The Times........rvhised..........
Call for ``sceptical``accountants as seriously flawed audits rise
This only helps finance johnnies to help their clients avoid paying their tax.
The number of seriously flawed audits of big companies jumped last year.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Govt needs to decide is this an issue for them?
they(the mouse) says it is
but does little to change things
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Political ``insider trading``Patrick Mercer MP instead of working for his constituents is working
for himself and lining his pockets and probably has outside jobs.......tip of the iceberg?...nah...
.how many more MP`s are elite greedy pigs ?Cash for questions: how the deal was sealed
with Patrick Mercer
As the former soldier turned Conservative MP strode into what he thought was the office of a
lobbying company near Parliament, the offer on the table was clear.
For a fee of £2,000 a month, Patrick Mercer, a popular figure in the House of Commons, would
push the Government to allow the rogue Fijian regime to rejoin the Commonwealth.
The smartly-dressed lobbyist Mr Mercer thought he was meeting said the parliamentary campaign
was being funded by a group of anonymous businesses that wished to profit from Fiji's return to
the international fold.
Unknown to the MP, the "lobbyist" was an undercover reporter investigating how Parliamentarians
are prepared to influence the political process for paying clients.
It is almost 20 years since the "cash for questions" scandal rocked Parliament and became a symbol
of *****Tory sleaze****, but there are still persistent allegations that some Parliamentarians are willing to
break the rules.
Is it just the `nasty party`at it...........nah...................................watch this space...
